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at Whitemore Pond, near Guildford, in May, 1833. William 

 Stafford. 



Curlew. The curlew has been shot on the moors near Fren 

 sham. IF. K. 



Common Redshank. Inserted on the authority of Mr. Lew- 

 cock. J. D. Salmon. 



Greenshank. A single specimen of the greenshank was shot 

 at Hampton Lodge. W. K. 



Avocet. Inserted on the authority of Mr. Mansell. J. D. 

 Salmon. 



Black-winged Stilt. I find no notice of this bird since the 

 very interesting one published in White's Selborne : it is as 

 follows : " In the last week of last month, five of those most 

 rare birds, too uncommon to have obtained an English name, 

 but known to naturalists by the terms of himantopus, or loripes, 

 and Charadrius himantopus, were shot upon the verge of Fren- 

 sham Pond, a large lake belonging to the Bishop of Winchester, 

 and lying between Wolmer Forest and the town of Farnham, in 

 the county of Surrey. The pond-keeper says there were three 

 brace in the flock ; but that, after he had satisfied his curiosity, 

 he suffered the sixth to remain unmolested. One of these spe- 

 cimens I procured, and found the length of the legs to be so ex- 

 traordinary, that, at first sight, one might have supposed the 

 shanks had been fastened on to impose on the credulity of the 

 beholder : they were legs in caricatura ; and had we seen such 

 proportions on a Chinese or Japan screen, we should have made 

 large allowances for the fancy of the draughtsman. These birds 

 are of the plover family, and might, with propriety, be called 

 the stilt-plovers. Brisson, under that idea, gives them the ap- 

 posite name of VGchasse. My specimen, when drawn, and stuff- 

 ed with pepper, weighed only four ounces and a quarter, though 

 the naked part of the thigh measured three inches and a half, 

 and the legs four inches and a half. Hence we may safely 

 assert, that these birds exhibit, weight for inches, incom- 

 parably the greatest length of legs of any known bird. The 

 flamingo, for instance, is one of the most long-legged birds, 

 and yet it bears no manner of proportion to the himantopus ; 



